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Scientometric Analysis of Current Science


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This article presents a scientometric analysis of Current Science. The publications of the journal have been analysed for a 28-year period (1990–2017). Several different parameters such as output pattern, collaboration trend, citation pattern, contributing countries and organizations, highly cited papers, etc. have been analysed. Graphs of keyword co-occurrences have also been generated to analyse the important themes of research and their trends over the years. The journal has been in existence for more than 85 years and, according to our knowledge there have been no earlier attempts towards its scientometric characterization. We find that the journal output has increased over the years. The authorship trend is found to be towards multi-authored papers. A fair percentage of the publications in the journal is cited. The rate of international collaboration is, however, not very high and most of the publications in the journal are from India. Major change is observed in the themes and trends of content published in Current Science during the study period, although the journal has remained India-focused.

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Bibliometrics, Current Science, Research Themes and Trends, Scientometric Analysis.
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School of Science, UP Rajarshi Tandon Open University, Prayagraj 211 021, India

Abstract


This article presents a scientometric analysis of Current Science. The publications of the journal have been analysed for a 28-year period (1990–2017). Several different parameters such as output pattern, collaboration trend, citation pattern, contributing countries and organizations, highly cited papers, etc. have been analysed. Graphs of keyword co-occurrences have also been generated to analyse the important themes of research and their trends over the years. The journal has been in existence for more than 85 years and, according to our knowledge there have been no earlier attempts towards its scientometric characterization. We find that the journal output has increased over the years. The authorship trend is found to be towards multi-authored papers. A fair percentage of the publications in the journal is cited. The rate of international collaboration is, however, not very high and most of the publications in the journal are from India. Major change is observed in the themes and trends of content published in Current Science during the study period, although the journal has remained India-focused.

Keywords


Bibliometrics, Current Science, Research Themes and Trends, Scientometric Analysis.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv117%2Fi2%2F190-197